Trouble on Titan

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Arthur K. Barnes. Trouble on Titan

Trouble on Titan

Table of Contents

Chapter I: Snaring a Trapper

Chapter II: Getaway Day

Chapter III: Hell Hole

Chapter IV: Disaster!

Chapter V: The Etiquette of Murder

Chapter VI: Sabotage

Chapter VII: Mystery of Life

Chapter VIII: Monster of Evil

Chapter IX: Children of Esau

Chapter X: Hotfoot on a Frigid World

Chapter XI: The Price of Victory

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Arthur K. Barnes

Published by Good Press, 2020

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"Now this fellow Kurtt—he's no more a professor than you are—is definitely not one of us. He's a smalltime, penny ante hanger-on, chiseling a few dollars by talking some sucker into financing him for short trips. There are two unexplained things. In the first place, none of the genuine hunters would have the appalling lack of ethics to try snaffling a fellow-member's job. It just isn't done.

"A man like Kurtt wouldn't dare suggest such a thing. He hasn't the—er—courage. Unless, of course, someone important egged him on. And secondly, where on Earth would a phony like Kurtt get the financing? This is big business, Claude, as you well know. The returns of a successful trip of mine may run close to a million dollars a year for the L.I.Z. But it also costs hundreds of thousands to carry out an expedition.

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